Improved match for lighting- cigars, and for other purposes



(r day r timml GUSTAV 'GRAETZ, 0F ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.

Letters Patent No. 84,821, dated December 8, 1868. Q 3 u INIPROVED MATCH FOR LIGHTING- CIGARS, .AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

The Schedule refemd to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAV GRAETZ, of city and county of Alexandria, and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Matches;

dip the outer face of the disk with phosphorus, or equivalent fulminate, and thereby complete the match.

It will be found useful formany purposes, especially in lighting cigars and fuses. In the former caseithe stem is pressed into the end of the cigar, and the cigar I taken hold of and operated as an ordinary match.

The stem is unnecessary for lighting pipes, but may be employed if desired.

Other uses for the match will suggest themselves hereafter. 7

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire -to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A match, constructed substantially as described. The above signed by me, this 6th day of November,

GUSTAV GRAETZ.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WLEDEBSHEIM, PHIL. F.,-LABNER. 

